{"id":191,"date":"2012-05-11T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/five-children-and-it\/"},"modified":"2012-05-11T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T13:35:00","slug":"five-children-and-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Five Children and It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/74\/Five_Children_and_It.jpg\/200px-Five_Children_and_It.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/74\/Five_Children_and_It.jpg\/200px-Five_Children_and_It.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span>Five Children and It<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>by Edith Nesbit<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><b><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Point: Your most earnest wish may become a nightmare! Be careful what you wish for.<\/div>\n<div><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Path: The five children, Richard, Cyril, Jane, Anthea, and the baby whom they called \u201cLamb\u201d are swept into various adventures through their misplaced wishes. After finding a sand ferry, or a Sammyadd, they are able to ask it a wish each day. Their attempt to be beautiful, get rich, be bigger, be different, have a more exciting life, or live in a book all backfire.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Agreement: I enjoy Edith Nesbit\u2019s imagination and ability to make an adventure appear in the washbasin or coat closet.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Favorite Quote: \u201cGrown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Stars: 5 out of 5<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>It would be worth another read and I would recommend it.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit Point: Your most earnest wish may become a nightmare! Be careful what you wish for. Path: The five children, Richard, Cyril, Jane, Anthea, and the baby whom they called \u201cLamb\u201d are swept into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-quite-a-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}